Last week, I posted a video full of iPhone tips [No longer online —Ed. 2015-08-13] on HowTube. More tips to come soon.
Category: geek
iPhone Points
So far, the iPhone is 95% joy, and 5% infuriating. Some of the high (and low) points: It’s incredibly scratch-resistant. Bluetooth hands-free headsets work incredibly well. Well, at least my JawBone does. No to-dos. Ta-da Lists have a nice iPhone-specific interface now, but I still want some sort of OmniFocus-like GTD task list for this…
The iPhone Line
Out of many possible locations near me, I picked the AT&T store in Silver Spring, MD to wait in line, hopefully to acquire an iPhone. I picked AT&T instead of Apple mainly due to Steve Jobs’ earlier comment about fewer people probably being at the AT&T stores. This one was closest to my work, but…
A Discussion About HD Video Disc Formats. Presented in Glorious Adium Transcript-O-Vision!
mboszko 22:38:40 Oh, finally picked a horse in the HD disc format race. 22:39:43 Costco had an instant $100 rebate on one of the Toshiba HD-DVD players, so I picked it up, along with a Jet Li movie. That was my “Father’s Day” gift from everyone. 22:40:00 Oh, crap. 22:40:09 I just realized I don’t…
MacBook Pro Screen Looks Drunk
So, I’m noticing over the weekend, parts of my screen look… fuzzy. Like out of focus. Like perhaps the whole glass-LCD-backlight thing has gone out and partied and had a bit too much to drink— like throwing-up-in-the-gutter, epic levels of alcohol intake— and the next morning it wakes up and says, “crap, I really still…
Desktop Tower Defense
You all know the incredibly fun time suck, but now Station in the Metro has its own group scoreboard! Join by entering “stationinthemetro” as your group when you register your score.
Automator bug in Rename Finder Items
I’ve been building a backup workflow in Automator for my daily Final Cut Pro editing projects, and I ran into a little glitch. If I use the Rename Finder Items action in a workflow, then try to put another action after it that references the now-renamed file, I get errors which seem to indicate that…